The Traveller in Me

I recently came back from Taiwan and I must say, it was tough for me. But some general tips for those who are on this adventure and are needing to travel:

*Don't mix the proteins
*Drink enough water
*Continue taking your supplements
*Bring your snacks with you at all times
*When eating at restaurants, order dishes that are cooked simply (i.e. grilled, steamed, baked...)

I did my best to stick to the general tips but given the situation I was in and the country I was visiting, I ended up becoming mostly vegetarian. Now people think that becoming a vegetarian it will help with the weight loss but the opposite was true in my case.

I was feeling quite stressed out that I could not follow my diet and at one point I broke down. It's so easy to go into blaming others when things don't go the way you would like it to be but later I realized that I was feeling angry with myself because I had allowed past thoughts to affect my present moment.

My past thought was that I had a fear about being fat again because I know what it feels like and so I thought me not following my diet meant that I would go fat all over again. So this fear really consumed me at that point in time. And to a certain extent, I had viewed the diet as fear-based too because it said if you had a "mad moment" it can set your weight loss back by 5 days.

How do you even define a "mad moment"? What does it look like? What effect will it have on the body? With the realization and questions I started asking, I stopped freaking out and focused on DOING MY BEST with the current circumstances I was in. And my holiday turned out much better!

By the time I got back to Brunei, I had put on weight by 1.3kg. A slight freak out while I was on the weighing scale but I brought myself back to what happened during Hari Raya and it was just to get back into the groove of the diet and all will be well. It turned out the extra 1.3kg was water retention because when I weighed myself the next day, I was back to the weight I had started off with when I went to Taiwan at 104kg!

Phewh!